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The former director of the CIA breached security protocol by disclosing the
name of the commander leading the raid on Osama bin Laden’s hideout in the
presence of a Hollywood executive, the Pentagon has admitted in a report.

Seven weeks after he supervised the mission targeting the al-Qaeda leader,
Leon Panetta, CIA chief at the time, breached security protocol by revealing
the “top secret” information at a ceremony at the agency’s headquarters, a
report said. Present at the event, called to honour those involved in the
May 2011 raid, was Mark Boal, who was working on Zero Dark Thirty,
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